Max Lucado Quotes

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds.

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

You are also what you say to yourself all day long.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.

Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life, and still be filled with joy and peace and victory - if you simply learn how to choose the right thought. It’s time to think about what you’re thinking about.

If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.

Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.

Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

We can live in fear or act out of hope.